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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Is air pollution making you dumber? (Ecofriend.com)

January 28, 2020


Ecofriend.com published an article on air pollution and cognitive abilities. An IFPRI study conducted by team head Senior Research Fellow Xiaobo Zhang discovered that the math and verbal scores declined with increasing exposure to pollution, and the decline was more pronounced in elderly, less educated men. Air pollution took a bigger toll on verbal scores rather than math, and men were most affected than women.

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